"We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course."

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Source : "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.

Arthur Golden

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“What would possess a family where's there's a husband and wife to want 12 kids or 18 kids? That's just what they feel is meaningful to them. Their family. Expanding a family.”

Source : "Her side of the story". "Dateline" with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. February 10, 2009.
“If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.”
“I've always been a fan of just extreme things. Whether it be in movies, books, TV or real life.”
“Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.”
“The provincial intellectual is doomed to arguing at low level... there is still no Australian literary world, not in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide. It is some consolation to realise that there is no literary world in Birmingham or Los Angeles either. I have heard there is one in Montreal, but I don't believe it. The literary world is in London and New York, the only cities big enough to sustain magazines which can afford to reject copy.”
“Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else; they remain stagnant, their bodies refusing to follow pace with the universe. With these kind of people everything aches for too long, everything moves without rush, wounds are always wet.”
“In the Age of Perfect Virtue, men lived among the animals and birds as members of one large family. There were no distinctions between superior and inferior to separate one man or species from another. All retained their natural Virtue and lived in a state of pure simplicity.”
“Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs ...”

Source : Cecil Beaton (1957). “The Face of the World: An International Scrapbook of People and Places”

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